The Prado Is Put in Box Office Mode with an Exhibition on Veronese, the Renaissance Master

The Prado Museum presents the first major exhibition dedicated to the great Italian artist in Spain after more than two decades of work dedicated to Venetian Renaissance painting Read

Once a year, hopefully, the great museums that house the memory of the ancient masters open the gates with a certain boat and allow the public to see a great succession of masterpieces one after another. It is what is known as a blockbuster exhibition, one of those that those responsible for the pinacoteca already know will be a success even before the inauguration. The Prado Museum opens this Tuesday Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), a sample that re…

"I paint my canvases with such judgment as I have and as I see fit," said the Venetian painter Paolo Veronese, whose works are on display at the Prado Museum in Madrid, in 1573, during his defense before the Inquisition.

[[QUOTE:PULLMIGUEL FALOMIR Director of the Prado Museum]]The Prado exhibits Veronese's best works.The Prado Museum has opened the first major exhibition dedicated in Spain to Paolo Veronese, one of the most brilliant masters of the Renaissance, with a hundred works of the most important pinacotecas in the world.[[QUOTE:PULLFERNANDO MÉNDEZ LEITE President of the Film Academy]]Barcelona will host the Goya Awards 2026. Barcelona will host the next …

This exhibition is not one more, it is simply a marvel of display, a dazzling discovery composed of a hundred works, many of enormous size and detail, an event that will make time in Europe for the recovery of a figure of first magnitude that was relegated. The Prado Museum celebrates Paolo Veronese, the Venetian genius who shone Europe in his time with the first great monographic exhibition in Spain dedicated to one of the most brilliant and ad…

Verona, 1553. A then still unknown Paolo Caliari —he would have missed much to be known as Paolo Veronese — leaves his native Verona to settle in Venice, with the flame of ambition for the sole pumping of his heart: the 25-year-old wanted to succeed with painting, after a few shy little pins in his city. In the end, the Veronese not only found the desired success, but redefined an artistic current altogether. Little by little, Veronica began to …